WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, Umanita Nova, FAI: Police State (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Red zones, DASPO, soldiers on the streets, special laws against

political and social opposition ---- The government is experimenting
with new mechanisms for excluding and controlling undesirables.
Invisible but concrete walls segment cities, separating those who can
freely access the most valuable areas and those who must be kept out.
---- With the red zones and the urban DASPO, the Minister of the
Interior has enriched the police toolbox with new instruments, which the
forces of state disorder can use without even bothering a magistrate.
The security crackdown, initially tested in Bologna and Florence,
extended to Milan and Naples in December, and in the new year it hit
Rome, where the police grip during the Jubilee is impressive. In Turin,
the mayor announces a "softer" approach: no red zones but areas with
"reinforced surveillance", like in Rome. It is difficult to grasp the
nuances in the face of the Savoy declination of government directives.
In fact, the police forces can forcefully remove anyone who assumes
"aggressive, threatening or persistently annoying attitudes". It goes
without saying that "attitudes" are not acts and, therefore, the men and
women in uniform send away people whose way of being on the street is
considered, at their discretion, undesirable.
These directives are only the latest piece in the government's
repressive mosaic, which affects every form of political and social
protest and struggle.
DDL 1236 - formerly 1660 - approved by the Chamber in September and
currently under discussion by the Senate Justice Committee, fits into
the furrow already opened by other measures (the rave, Cutro,
immigration, Caivano decrees) that affect the poor, non-conforming
lifestyles, and foreigners without documents. The measures against
non-commodified sociality, those against refugees and migrants, the
attack on young people, the repression of struggle movements are the
cornerstones of the government's repressive project.
DDL 1236 inflicts increasingly harsh blows on those who fight in CPRs
and prisons, on those who fight against evictions, on those who squat,
on those who write graffiti on barracks and police stations, on those
who block a road or a train, on those who picket workplaces, on those
who support and spread subversive ideas.
Climate, social and trade union, anti-prison and no-border movements are
criminalized and attempts are made to block them, inflicting long prison
sentences for banal practices of political and social struggle.
The logic of class and repression towards those who try to change the
intolerable world in which we live is inherent in the democratic
judicial system: but the measures adopted by this government make it
increasingly shameless and violent.
This set of new laws increasingly strengthens police powers, reducing
the already meager protections for freedom of expression, movement, and
social opposition.
Article 31 of DDL 1236 allows secret services to become part of
terrorist organizations, trying to take control of them, in the
certainty of anonymity and impunity for the crimes committed. Last but
not least, these legalized provocateurs can build and possess bombs. The
fairy tale of the "deviant" secret services is over, the bad apples who,
with the complicity of the fascists, have puppeteered the many state
massacres that bloodied our country in the Seventies and Eighties.
Today, with the fascists in power, they are about to obtain the license
to commit massacres. By State. By Law.
The same article provides for the obligation, in fact, also for
universities and research institutions to collaborate with the secret
services, including the possibility of derogating from the regulations
on confidentiality. In general, the very sharp increase in penalties,
the introduction of new crimes, the meticulous choice of the subjects to
be hit and those to be protected are the hallmark of DDL 1236. More
prison for many, but not for all, because the plot of Meloni's various
provisions is explicitly authoritarian and class-based.
The struggles in prisons and CPRs are pursued more harshly because those
who carry them out are portrayed as constitutively criminal, illegal,
outside the norm. This government is not satisfied with beating people
up, depriving them of all dignity, it wants to bury in prison those who
start riots in places of detention.
This government wants to silence any protest, introducing a collective
crime into the legal system, equated to those of mafia and terrorism,
which also prosecutes non-violent actions such as hunger strikes.
The crime of "terrorism of the word" arises from the public
criminalization of political and social opposition.
These provisions are configured as criminal law of the enemy, while
remaining within a universalist framework.
Criminal law of the enemy is informed by a logic of war. In war, enemies
must be annihilated, reduced to nothing, deprived of life, liberty and
dignity. The formal protections reserved for citizens do not apply to
the enemy.
When the logic of war is applied to the law, some human groups are
repressed for what they are rather than for what they do. The entire
action of the executive is informed by this principle. A principle on
whose foundations the Nazi concentration camps and Stalinist gulags were
built. The definition of the internal "enemy" is exquisitely political
and is the prerogative of those who hold the power to decide who
maintains the prerogatives of the "citizen" and who is deprived of them
because they are considered individually and collectively incompatible
with the new order that the government is building.
An order that does not even need the infamous "exceptional laws" of 1926
to strike at the freedom to strike, to write and have one's say, to
fight for housing, health, freedom, dignity.
Laws are the normative precipitate of the balance of power within a
society. Today the fascists in government feel strong and play all the
cards at their disposal to ensure total political control and social
discipline.
The government is carrying out a pincer maneuver, moving simultaneously
on multiple fronts. In addition to the exquisitely repressive plan,
Meloni is aiming for an institutional reform that will make the
executive even stronger, and is pursuing a cultural hegemony, which sees
schools, the media and the territory as spaces of conquest.
Fascism is returning. They are using the democratic framework to give a
sharp authoritarian turn to the country: a sign that democracy is only
an illusion of freedom and social justice.

Stopping them is still possible. We need to strengthen the networks and
movements that fight against the authoritarian turn and, together,
maintain our commitment against war, militarism, patriarchy, borders,
exploitation, environmental devastation, nationalism.

The time is now.

Turin Anarchist Federation
Antimilitarist Assembly - Turin

meetings, open to interested parties, every Tuesday at 8:30 pm in Corso
Palermo 46

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